I am more attuned to the KEto diet because my wife has an auto-immune disease. Eating meats, fruits and vegetables and avoiding grains. Grains and nightshade veggies cause inflammation and could make my wifes condition miserable for days.
I think the anti-inflammatory diet has more health benefits than a plant based one. As inflammation is the primary cause for heart disease and not meat. Most vegans and vegetarians have causation backwards for health risks.
Meat is very healthy if you don't combine it with grains and other carb heavy foods that can tear up your veins and allow bad cholesterol to clog them.
I'm glad I haven't noticed any (much) diet issues. That's why I freaked when the Dr suggested Celiac's but IBD was OK, what I was used to living but with a name. A gluten free diet with major ramifications for a minor slip would be hell for me. After 49 years of eating more than I want just having to watch how much I eat hasn't been easy.
If I become diabetic I'm just turning it over to a nutritionist. White starchy carbs are my safe food when times are bad. I know a diabetic IBD'er who does well with starches, her Dr is like do what you gotta do, figure it out along the way.
If I was to limit diet it would have to be one of the high meat diets. (Although I hate the name Paleo, no, early man ate grain, archeology proves that.)
Well that's a different case, they did find that trans fats are essentially poison to the body in that they aren't processed and cause one of issues (aka what is in margarine). Even though I agree with your sentiment that funding plays a role in some studies I'd argue science has not taken a nose dive. Just look at all the backlash towards marijuana that has been going on for decades, yet there is little to any negative scientific studies showing cannabis is harmful.
I guess you hadn't heard. Once laws were passed against transfat, Oops, we were wrong again, go back to margarine. I trust nothing any more.
MMJ is another one where the research Dr's who are supposed to protect me fall into spouting propaganda.
"Marijuana works to suppress symptoms but we can't find any evidence it causes healing so we recommend against it."
Yet they give me Zofran to suppress nausea, Bentyl to suppress pain, Remicade to suppress inflammation. Without a cure all they can do is suppress symptoms.
And most gluten sensitive people, not gluten allergic people, are sensitive to it because of other proteins like gluten in grains.
Be careful with that. Non-gluten sensitive people can become gluten sensitive by going gluten free.
Good points. Like cigarettes, recent studies say red meat will cause cancer. Keep in mind the healthiest fish are wild caught (cost more $$$ though). I just heard some distressing news about farm raised salmon.
Note that cigarettes are probably the reason I avoided meds that cause cancer for 49 years. Even with smoking we are individuals.
Quit smoking and get runaway Ulcerative Colitis and the disease itself is a cancer risk, yet people with UC are at a lower risk for lung cancer.
India is full of some of the direst poverty and millions of people don't have access to clean water or sanitation. Nobody is saying vegan diets are a must so I don't know why you're being so sensitive and defensive over it. But no, eating meat is not why Americans live longer than Indians. There's far, far more to life expectancy than that.
By calling it "vegan" are you saying it's a must, healthy or not. Vegan is political, vegetarian is diet.
Fat is not bad, too much fat and carbs are what is bad and this is what the typical American living off of processed foods consume and that plus sedentary lifestyles is why we are an obese nation.
I think like salt I don't take in fat because of faulty intestines. Again diet is individual not one size fits all.
The anti-salt craze that's going on would make a lot of people I know sick because they don't have the proper part of their intestines to take up salt, they are told to pile it on. Many I know don't get enough B12 because the part that takes that up is gone. Just like they can be removed they can not work.
